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For today’s Q&A with a local business, we talk to UCBC Bagels manager Morgan Gwilym. The South Avenue bagel shop and cafe is open 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., seven days a week. After May 20, UCBC’s plans for outdoor dining include setting up tables outside running from its patio all the way down to the area in front of Mackenzie’s. Here’s our interview. How are you faring there at UCBC?
We are actually doing quite well, to be perfectly honest.
New Canaan is not enforcing parking regulations and will decide whether and how to do so as the business district reopens, the town’s highest elected official said last week. Parking Bureau enforcement officers are not out in the streets ticketing motorists “nor are police writing tickets,” according to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan. He told members of the Parking Commission at their most recent meeting that they should make a recommendation on what will happen after May 20, when some types of businesses—including restaurants with outdoor seating—can reopen or begin to operate in a more accustomed way. “Are we going to charge parking meter fees?” Moynihan said at the May 7 meeting, held via videoconference. “There is a sense that we shouldn’t.
For today’s Q&A with a local business, we talk to Alyssa Kadow, owner of Greens On The Go.
A provider of California-inspired salads, grain bowls, smoothies, snacks and seasonal specials, Greens On The Go is located inside Pine Street Concessions. It’s open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, offering pickup and delivery through Uber Eats. Kudos said she plans to have online ordering up and running by the end of this week and to have a new mobile app launched by the end of May. Here’s our interview. New Canaanite: Tell me how you are faring at Greens On The Go amid the public safety emergency and related restrictions.
Members of the town body that hears parking ticket appeals last week voiced concerns after its chair said a violation for parking in a disabled space had been waived without the group’s input. Parking Commission Chair Keith Richey said four appeals had come in recently from ticketed motorists and that he’d discussed them with the first selectman and head of the Parking Bureau “and the conclusion was we had to waive these because this meeting wouldn’t qualify as necessary due process” for an appeal. “Maybe we will come to a different conclusion going forward, but I don’t feel too bad about having to waive four tickets,” Richey said during the Commission’s special meeting, held May 7 via videoconference. “And I’ll bet even the one with the parking in the handicapped spot, there was probably the whole street was empty so there was plenty of places for handicapped to park. That’s my guess.”
Yet under the Town Charter, the Commission is the municipal body that fields parking ticket appeals, Secretary Pam Crum said, and under an Executive Order from the governor during this public health emergency, the group can meet remotely and postpone those appeals.
For today’s Q&A with a local business owner, we talk to New Canaan resident Emad Aziz of the Apple Cart Food Co. The company runs the popular gourmet food counter at Mead Park Lodge, among other locations in town.
After our interview, Aziz mentioned that those seeking to support healthcare and public safety workers during the COVID-19 health emergency can gift up to 300 lunches through the Apple Cart to those individuals. The New Canaan Lacrosse Association did just that for those working in the COVID unit at Norwalk Hospital, he said.
Here’s our interview. New Canaanite: What does your operation look like right now? When are you open?